Osman Nuri Hadžić (28 June 1869 – 23 December 1937) was a Bosnian intellectual and writer. On 1 May 1900, he co-launched the political journal ''

Behar Behar, BeHar, Be-har, or B'har ( — Hebrew language, Hebrew for "on the mount," the fifth word, and the Incipit, first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 32nd weekly Torah portion (, ''parashah'') in the annual Judaism, Jewish cycle of Tor ...

'' with Safvet beg Bašagić and

Edhem Mulabdić Edhem Mulabdić (19 October 1862 – 29 January 1954) was a Bosnian writer and co-founder of the political journal ''Behar''. Biography Edhem Mulabdić was born in Maglaj in 1862, where he finished Islamic elementary school maktab and then got ...

Biography

Hadžić was educated in

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and

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, where he earned a diploma in 1899. He first served in the district court in his hometown

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, as well as Sarajevo. Hadžić later served in the Provincial Government in Sarajevo. During the

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, he was a manager in Dubica and

Banja Luka Banja Luka ( sr-Cyrl, Бања Лука, ) or Banjaluka ( sr-Cyrl, Бањалука, ) is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city of Republika Srpska. Banja Luka is also the ''de facto'' capital of this entity. I ...

, where he was when the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed.

Personal life

Hadžić had four daughters; daughter Bahrija (4 March 1904 – 24 October 1993) was a soprano singer.

Works

*''Muhammed i Koran – kulturna istorija islama'' ("Muhammed and the Quran: A Cultural History of Islam"; 1931)

References

1869 births 1937 deaths Writers from Mostar Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims People from the Ottoman Empire of Bosnian descent 19th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire Bosniak writers {{BosniaHerzegovina-writer-stub